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    Creative Sound Blaster X7 & XM7 bass problem

    I tried the Warm preset and it did improve music listening tremendously. I had kept it at neutral. Thank you!
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    Creative Sound Blaster X7 & XM7 bass problem

    I recently bought X7 Limited Edition + E-MU XM7 bundle, got them set up and all appears to work as expected. But bass is lackluster, which is unlike various reviews I've read and watched. I've also seen a few YouTube videos, such as this one and this one which shows how the drivers visibly...
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    Please help me find a case for my next build

    I can put down a few hundred bucks no problem.
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    Please help me find a case for my next build

    It's the Fractal Design Arc Midi that I have. From the get-go the panel was difficult to put back unless the case was laying down, with the open side facing up. So after several years of use the hooks are bent or gone entirely. With the hooks now in such state, I have to put the case on its...
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    Please help me find a case for my next build

    Looking for a new case has been incredibly frustrating because I just can't find one that I'd like. Hopefully the fine folks at Anandtech have some good suggestions. My criteria: - ATX. - No windowed side panel, or one that is entirely glass. I don't want to see the guts of my computer unless I...
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    Alternative sound cards to CL

    There is no such thing as well supported sound card really. Asus' Xonar internal sound card lineup has pretty good hardware, but Asus is at the mercy of C-MEDIA when it comes to drivers. Unfortunately C-MEDIA rarely publishes driver updates and they haven't released any Win10 drivers yet. Even...
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    Windows 7 color profiles troubles

    Windows 7, Intel DZ77BH-55K, Intel Core i7-3770, Radeon 7850, 4x4GB Vengeance LP 1600MHz DDR3, 180GB Intel 330 SSD, 2TB Seagate Barracuda. Onboad GPU not in use. There is no option in the CCC for any kind of color profiles that I can see. Another observation. I've disabled CCC from msconfig's...
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    Windows 7 color profiles troubles

    The backstory is I want to use icc color profile I got from tftcentral.co.uk and of course I made sure I followed their instructions to set it up. The problem is that it is completely random whether the icc profile is applied or not during Windows log on. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. It...
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    Is it possible to setup two different mice on one computer?

    I use M570 at work and at home. I even use it to play games. I did try to use a mouse once, but that was quite a failure because I had gotten so used to the M570 that I was simply better off with M570. I might even argue it's easier to play with M570 than with a mouse. In any case, I wanted to...
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    Is it a requirement to run a memtest86+ pass on a new build? Or only if problems?

    Last year I was having data corruption issues which turned out to have been caused by a RAM module. Memtest86 didn't find any problems despite been running overnight. Funnily enough, Windows 7's memory diagnostic did find a problem. Unfortunately the Win7 diagnostic never tells which module, so...
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    "Best" media player for Windows?

    No offense but people would be better off downloading MPC-HC from the OFFICIAL website, not some random shady looking url that has no guarantee of being legit but might instead be distributing malware, trojans or viruses. http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
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    "Best" media player for Windows?

    +1 to this. MPC-HC & foobar2k combo is great.
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    mouse pads aka gaming surfaces

    Not really no. I haven't personally used regular mice for past year or so, including for PC gaming. And my wrist has really thanked me for that too. Do note that there are several types of trackballs, some are operated by thumb and some by fingers. For general use and gaming I recommend thumb...
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    mouse pads aka gaming surfaces

    Or alternatively, get a mouse you don't need to move at all. Logitech M570 is probably the best right now.
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    Best Linux Server uptime?

    I don't get all this keep your linux uptime as high as possible business. Doing so means you don't care about kernel updates at all, I prefer security over ridiculous uptimes. Of course kernel updates address other issues too, but if you have high uptime already then stability isn't one of them.
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    What version of Google Chrome do you run?

    There are four "channels" for Google Chrome; stable, beta, dev and canary. Canary is equivalent to nightly builds AFAIK. As long as you don't disable Chrome's auto-updater, you're staying up-to-date with newest builds. So the question really isn't "which beta", but which channel you use. I stay...
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    Sword of the Stars II

    To get an impression how broken the current version of SotS2 is, you should read these two topics: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2208346 http://www.kerberos-productions.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=21876 However, it does seem that Parallax (the publisher) was pushing...
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    Sand Bridge-E Bundles Closed Loop LC!

    What kind of maintenance does this kind of cooler require? Is it necessary to change the liquid (water?) from time to time?
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    VLC still the best out there for video player?

    Definitely Media Player Classic - Home Cinema http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
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    CHALLENGE: Modding a trackball?

    No clue whether it's doable or not, but why not get a trackball that has mousewheel? Such as http://www.logitech.com/en-roeu/mice-pointers/trackballs/devices/7365 I use that and it's great.
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    A little bit of dsquery/dsmod help

    I hope we have plenty of people around here who knows their AD scripting. :) Well anyway. I have pretty simple bat file that disables user accounts. I'd like to expand that bat file to do more. As it already writes a txt file where there are distinguished names of all groups the user is...
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    I like Gnome 2.0 too much

    You should give xfce a try. It's basically gnome2 and uses same gtk toolkit.
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    Recommendations for a trackball mouse?

    For graphics design and such, a trackball where the ball is located in middle are probably best. But there aren't many options for general purpose (including gaming) trackball, these trackballs have their balls located within reach of your thumb. Logitech M570 is your best bet for...
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    Does anyone else not use a mousepad?

    I think someone is confused what a trackball is. Here, let me help you. Hear hear. Trackballs for the win. I use the new Logitech M570 myself. I play all my games with it too, couldn't go back to regular mice anymore.
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    Pre-rendered cutscenes should all be 1080p by now

    - Xbox 360 only has normal DVD drive. HD-DVD was available as an option but it has been discontinued AFAIK, but it never was standard equipment. - Wii has some kind of proprietary optical media drive, you can't play DVD movies let alone blu-ray movies in the drive. - PS3 does have blu-ray...
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    Buying sound card, need advice

    That's not entirely true. If game supports EAX or OpenAL, you can enable audio processing on hardware by enabling GX mode in the Xonar driver control panel. Basically Xonar's drivers can do what Creative's ALchemy does. Though of course Creative has full EAX functionality, something that no...
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    Samsung and Seagate

    Sounds about right. It's still annoying not to have the best HDD's available since SSD's are still way above my comfort price zone.
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    Buying sound card, need advice

    Personally I would think twice buying a sound card just because of one game. It'd be cheaper to edit Oblivion.ini or use the mod. If you have good quality speakers and/or headphones, then you might actually benefit from Xonar. Try setting bDSoundHWAcceleration=0 and bUseSoftwareAudio3D=1 to...
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    Samsung and Seagate

    So I wonder why there aren't higher capacity F4's then. The 320GB model was released last year. :(
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    Buying sound card, need advice

    I'm pretty certain 95% of today's gamers use onboard audio chips. Which means all games are designed to work on these onboard chips reliably, at the cost of simultaneous sounds played and 3D effects. In fact, I'd first make sure you have 3D effects disabled and simultaneous sounds set to...
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    Samsung and Seagate

    It is my understanding that Samsung only released the 320GB version of the new F4's (non-EcoGreen's) before Seagate bought their hard drive business. Now the question is, does anyone have any clue if we will see HDD's that perform at the level of F4's from Seagate anytime soon? Or did Seagate...
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    AMD AM3+ Motherboard Thread

    I'm a bit disappointed these boards doesn't seem to have PCIE3 and use 3rd party chips to provide USB3 support. It seems we'll have to wait until next year for real PCIE3 and USB3 support.
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    Four memory modules = HDD data transfer corruption

    Yeah, the problem is weird since it doesn't clearly point to any particular hardware. I might give up on having 8GB RAM in this rig, 4GB is still quite enough. Well, teaches me to stick with two memory sticks in the future as well. Heh, maybe I should start planning on Bulldozer or Ivy Bridge...
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    Four memory modules = HDD data transfer corruption

    I have ran memtest86 succesfully overnight with all four memory sticks installed. Only Win7's own diagnostic program was able to find issues, but even that only with extended settings and only with four sticks installed. Haven't ran it with three sticks installed though. I've found that copying...
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    Four memory modules = HDD data transfer corruption

    Right, so default timings of these Kingston sticks are 5-5-5-15. I tried to increase these to 6-6-6-18, but the problem persisted. Next I tried what happens with three sticks installed. I tried stick #3 on 2nd and 4th bank, no problems. Then I tried stick #4 on 2nd bank, data corruption. Then...
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    Four memory modules = HDD data transfer corruption

    BIOS is latest available. I probably should try slower timings then, but I do not have any other DDR2 sticks to test with. I've noticed that timings are no different whether I have two or four sticks installed though.
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    Four memory modules = HDD data transfer corruption

    There shouldn't be bad RAM because all four sticks have been tested two at a time, as have been memory slots two at a time. Haven't tested three sticks/slots because memory would work in single-channel mode then. I will probably try to get used P45 motherboard to replace this Gigabyte P35...
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    Four memory modules = HDD data transfer corruption

    As mentioned in the original post, no overclocking.
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    Four memory modules = HDD data transfer corruption

    All sticks and memory banks have been tested two at a time and they work fine as long as only two are used. Timings are set to be automatically detect and use what SPD reports in the BIOS and I double-checked that they're also what Kingston's datasheet says. Guess I could try lower memory...
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    Four memory modules = HDD data transfer corruption

    I've got four memory modules of Kingston 2GB DDR2 ValueRAM in Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3. Memtest86 passes fine, no errors. So does Windows 7 memory diagnostics on standard settings. But when ran with extended settings, it does find problems but doesn't specify any better than that. In actual use data...